October Halloween Marathon 2021
October 2021 was not entirely unexpected, but still kinda caught me off-guard.
Specific themes/clusters this year include:
-Odd, mostly covert superhero movies.
-Gas Station Autumns.
-Polish Cinema Days, because ones are occurring in Ukraine at the time.
-Creatures and types mentioned in a song "What Shall I Be?" from Garfield in Disguise (1985).
-Directorial debuts.
Counted:
-23 feature films (including a live stream and a live event),
-8 Halloween Specials across different mediums,
-2 TV episodes,
-42 webisodes,
-13 short films (including 6 music videos and 1 commercial),
-podcasts,
-1 video games.
Earlier installments: 2014-2017, 2018, Halloween Hangover 2018, 2019, Halloween Hangover 2019, 2020,Halloween Hangover Marathon 2020
Specific themes/clusters this year include:
-Odd, mostly covert superhero movies.
-Gas Station Autumns.
-Polish Cinema Days, because ones are occurring in Ukraine at the time.
-Creatures and types mentioned in a song "What Shall I Be?" from Garfield in Disguise (1985).
-Directorial debuts.
Counted:
-23 feature films (including a live stream and a live event),
-8 Halloween Specials across different mediums,
-2 TV episodes,
-42 webisodes,
-13 short films (including 6 music videos and 1 commercial),
-podcasts,
-1 video games.
Earlier installments: 2014-2017, 2018, Halloween Hangover 2018, 2019, Halloween Hangover 2019, 2020,Halloween Hangover Marathon 2020
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- DirectorPhil RomanStarsLorenzo MusicThom HugeGregg BergerWhen Garfield and Odie are out trick-or-treating, they end up at a haunted house.1 October: Incredibly wholesome and well-made with a lot of soul in it. Finally got to see it after postponing for years and some special occasion. Why not make this one special, though.
- DirectorAdam UstynowiczStarsStanislaw LemKatarzyna Piotrowska-OrnatkiewiczA multifaceted portrait of science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem.1 October: XIV Polish Cinema Days in Ukraine organized a few theatrical screenings and I was lucky to catch one. A really good and inspiring documentary on a celebrate sci-fi author Stanislaw Lem, who wrote quite a few spooky enough things for this to be a seasonal treat, too.
- DirectorKrzysztof JankowskiStarsWojciech SolarzKamila KaminskaPawel CiolkoszThe year is 2055. The well-known cosmonaut Ijon Tichy is to deliver a speech in the Pan-Slavic Parliament against the introduction of the Polish People's Republic - Extraterrestrial Human Regulations.1 October: Also XIV Polish Cinema Days in Ukraine. Also adapted from Stanislaw Lem. i must admit: concepts of time loops, time paradoxes et cetera terrify me quite a bit so it is also season-appropriate. A good short, although lack of ending, however appropriate, feels like an attempt at financing a feature-length adaptation of the book. Which should be cool, actually.
- 2011–TV EpisodeDirectorBrandon TenoldStarsBrandon Tenold3 October: Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews (2011) (an always appropriate comfort food; also a bit of an addiction at this point)
- DirectorBrandon Tenold3 October: Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews (2011)
- In the night a man approaches a woman on a bus stop with unknown intentions.4 October: It's nice to just encounter an appropriately seasonal, horror-ish commercial out of the blue and out in the wild. Not much of those these days, so I cherish them.
- DirectorBrandon Tenold5 October: Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews (2011)
- DirectorBrandon TenoldStarsBrandon Tenold5 October: Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews (2011). I kinda feel like I should make a room for a movie this episode reviews this year, too.
- DirectorCary Joji FukunagaStarsDaniel CraigAna de ArmasRami MalekJames Bond has left active service. His peace is short-lived when Felix Leiter, an old friend from the CIA, turns up asking for help, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.6 October: I was not sure that a James Bond film will fit in the marathon but a prologue is practically its own mini-slasher flick with surprising homages to Halloween (1978). Plus yeah, it evoked some of the feelings I needed from those covert superhero movies I've mentioned.
- DirectorBrandon Tenold7 October: Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews (2011)
- DirectorBrandon Tenold7 October: Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews (2011)
- 2010–TV Episode7 October: Good Bad Flicks (2010) is simply amazing.
- 2010–TV EpisodeStarsCecil Trachenburg7 October: Good Bad Flicks (2010). That settles it: will be trying to fit Razorback (1984) into the marathon because I was looking specifically for hidden gems like that.
- Good Bad Flicks enjoys the sexy version of "The Most Dangerous Game" with Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity. Directed by Ken Dixon.8 October: Good Bad Flicks (2010)
- 2010–TV Episode8 October: Good Bad Flicks (2010)
- DirectorBrandon Tenold8 October: Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews (2011)
- StarsCecil TrachenburgGood Bad Flicks has fun with Food of the Gods. Directed by Bert I Gordon.8 October: Good Bad Flicks (2010)
- DirectorStefan LjungqvistMarcus ThorellStarsTim EarleGarry FergusonIndy NeidellThis survival-horror FPS takes place in 1912, at Transylvania, Romania, with the player controlling the character of James Patterson, who is heading to Castle Malachi to attend the marriage of his sister to a wealthy Romanian Count.9 October: Well, yeah. After a year or two of considering I finally got to including video games in the Halloween Marathon. This one has some really nice gothic atmosphere and a decent gameplay that was way ahead of its time. It still kind of bored me though which is surprising. Might be the mood of the night and I might return to it. After all, it is set on an October night, it has all the check marks for a great horror experience... Speaking of checkmarks: "I could be a scary vampire! And turn myself into a bat (flap flap)!" (Garfield in Disguise (1985)). Apart from a ton of vampires, it also has a lot of bats as an atmospheric element in the central location.
- 2010–TV EpisodeStarsCecil Trachenburg9 October: Good Bad Flicks (2010)
- DirectorCecil TrachenburgStarsCecil Trachenburg9 October: Good Bad Flicks (2010)
- StarsCecil TrachenburgGood Bad Flicks calls up the Party Line. Directed by William Webb.9 October: Good Bad Flicks (2010). I feel like my binges of the web-series stashes try to tell me marathon should get more exciting, because this episode mentions The Paul Lynde Halloween Special (1976). Now I need to see this.
- DirectorBrandon Tenold
9 October: Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews (2011). Now this one mentions Halloween decorations! And Paul Lynde, too! - DirectorMykola YeriominStarsMykola YeriominYelena KrechetovaA motion picture portrait of inexplicably sad teenager.9 October: Me and my crew continue to dig up skeletons from my own closet. This short is unfinished and partially lost, but partial surviving guarantees we can watch it and makes some notes. "So what shall I be? What could I be? What shall I be?" (Garfield in Disguise (1985)).
- DirectorJason GaleaStarsKing Gizzard & the Lizard WizardMichael CavanaghCook CraigKing Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard perform their song "Cyboogie" from the album "Fishing with Fishies" live in studio.9 October: A really cool live-in-studio, shot-on-video, retro-style music video. "I could be handsome or brave, a king or a slave [...], a robot" (Garfield in Disguise (1985)).
- DirectorBill PaxtonRocky SchenckStarsBarnes & BarnesRobert HaimerBarry HansenSurreal music video for the song "Fish Heads" by Barnes and Barnes. A man buys a fish head at the market. A homeless man approaches him. The man shows him the fish head. Absurdist song featuring real fish heads in novelty hats begins.9 October: A terrific WTF of a music video, I can't believe this was actually on both SNL and MTV back in the day. Moreover, short-form directorial debut by Bill Paxton before watching his equally interesting feature length one.